It’s an exciting week for Gilmore Girls fans around the world as Netflix prepares to release four new installments of the heartwarming fan favorite. More than nine years since the network run of the show ended in 2007, we get the opportunity to catch up with Rory, Lorelai, Emily, Luke, Lane, all the whacky faces of Stars Hollow and, of course, the boyfriends. No matter what “team” you’re on, this promises to be one of the most exciting premiers of all time.

Of course, you want to see Stars Hollow in all its Ultra HD* glory this time around – and today we are happy to announce 4K content from Netflix is now available exclusively for compatible PCs and 2-in-1 devices with Windows 10, including the new Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, premiering November 25th.

Your binge-watching favorites on Netflix are now available in 4K exclusively on compatible PCs and 2-in-1 devices, on Windows 10. Check out the new streaming experience with Microsoft Edge, the only browser that supports Netflix 4K content. If you’re looking for a new Windows 10 device that supports 4K, head over to Microsoft Stores.**

But wait, there’s more! What better way to prepare for this major moment than to re-watch all your old favorites? And since it’s Thanksgiving week for those of us in the US, you might have some downtime on a train, at Grandma’s house or in your childhood bedroom. Make sure you’re making the most of your binge watching experience by streaming your favorite episodes from Netflix on Microsoft Edge. Nothing is worse than your battery dying right at a pivotal moment – what if your screen went dark when Rory sees Jess before Sookie’s wedding? Or right as Logan was about to ask a very important question at Rory’s graduation party? Or, worst case, before you know Luke is “all in”?

When streaming Netflix on Microsoft Edge you can get through at least one more full episode of Gilmore Girls than when streaming on Chrome on battery*** – and you know one episode can be the difference between Chris and Lorelai casually dating and being a married couple.

And now, as I get ready to cozy in for a marathon binge session this week, I leave you with my top twelve must-watch episodes to get ready for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Copper boom!

Season 1, Episode 2: The Lorelai’s First Day at Chilton

Season 1, Episode 10: Forgiveness and Stuff

Season 2, Episode 4: The Roadtrip to Harvard

Season 2, Episode 22: I Can’t Get Started

Season 3, Episode 7: They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They?

Season 3, Episode 22: Those Are Strings, Pinocchio

Season 4, Episode 22: Raincoats and Recipes

Season 5, Episode 7: You Jump, I Jump, Jack

Season 5, Episode 22: A House is not A Home

Season 6, Episode 7: Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number

Season 6, Episode 13: Friday Night’s Alright for Fighting

Season 7, Episode 22: Bon Voyage

*Ultra HD availability subject to your Netflix subscription plan, Internet service, device capabilities, and content availability. netflix.com/TermsOfUse**To run Netflix in 4K on a PC device, it must have a 4K-capable screen and use a 7th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor.
***Battery life varies significantly with settings and other factors.

As we wrap up 2015, I’d like to provide you with an update on Windows 10. We’ve seen significant growth since our last announcement of 110 million active devices running Windows 10 and look forward to sharing an update on our overall progress soon. We’re seeing billions and billions of hours spent on Windows 10 each month already, with people browsing the Web, playing games, getting work done, and enjoying thousands of apps.

The new Netflix app features a more seamless Browse experience

Today, I’d like to focus on some great new partners bringing universal apps to the Windows Store. We recently hit an important milestone, with 2.5 billion visits to the Windows Store since the Windows 10 launch. We’re continuing to welcome new customers to the Windows Store every day – in fact, on Black Friday, we were thrilled to see 75% of our customers were first-time Windows Store purchasers. During our recent 10 Cent Deals promotion, we saw a 29X increase for paid app purchases, with strong repeat traffic. If you haven’t had a chance to take advantage of great deals in the Windows Store this holiday, there’s still time to experience great savings in the Movies & TV section of the Windows Store!*.

With Windows 10, for the first time, we delivered a platform that enables developers to create one app experience that extends across all Windows 10 devices. We’re beginning to see more and more universal apps become available for Windows 10, including new apps from Netflix, Pandora, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and 1-800-Flowers – just in the last week. Uber, Shazam, TuneIn Radio, Box, and Twitter also recently released new apps lighting up all new experiences for Windows.

Netflix – All New Universal App for Windows 10

Netflix has long been one of the top apps on Windows and we were pleased they were one of the first partners to release an app for Windows 10. Since the launch of Windows 10, Netflix has been one of the most downloaded and heavily used apps in our Windows Store.

Today we’re excited to share that an all new Netflix app for Windows 10 PCs and tablets is beginning to rollout in the Windows Store to download this week. And, the new app will be available for mobile phones running Windows 10 in the near future. Netflix shares more about the ease of development on the universal Windows platform on their blog.

The new Netflix app on Windows 10 offers capabilities unique to the app experience, including the ability to pin the app to Start and the Task Bar, Live Tile notifications, and more.

Netflix for Windows 10 was built from the ground up on the Universal Windows Platform. The all-new app features a stunning new user interface and plenty of great Windows 10 feature integrations.

The new Netflix app is one of the best ways to watch Netflix’s vast library of streaming video content from any Windows 10 PC or tablet wherever you are. Everything from the sign-in screen to the Netflix browsing experience has been updated to make it smoother, more responsive, and overall easier to use on Windows 10. Here are just a few of the key new features:

New Design Helps You Quickly Find the Content You Want

One of the biggest areas of investment is the new user interface. The browse experience supports vertical scrolling for categories and horizontal scrolling for items within a category, delivering the optimal navigation model to help you easily find the content you want. The design of the details pages has also been updated.

The updated Details view features large, cinematic artwork

Live Tile Integration Offers Customization and Ease of Access

The new Netflix app offers small, medium, wide and large tile sizes for pinning the app to your Start menu, you can easily customize your placement of the new Netflix app. Once pinned to the Start menu, the Netflix tile will show artwork from titles in the member’s Continued Watching list.

Advanced Search Options and Built-in Cortana in the New Netflix App

The design of search results has also been updated, with suggested results for some searches. And, the new Netflix app features built-in Cortana commands, allowing you to control the experience and navigate across content using only your voice. You can issue commands like “Cortana, launch Netflix” or “Netflix, find ‘House of Cards.’” Other Cortana commands include “Netflix Search ‘House of Cards’”, “Netflix Look for ‘House of Cards’” and more.

With the new Netflix app on Windows 10, Netflix members have instant access to a wide variety of TV shows and movies, including award-winning original series, documentaries and feature films. Netflix members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere.

The new Netflix app is available across all supported countries and languages and is beginning to rollout in the Windows Store to download this week. A full list of country availability is located here.

The Force is with us big-time this week: We’ve got stories about Skype Translator debuting in Mandarin and Italian, Build 2015 making a first-ever road tour worldwide, and all six Star Wars films being available digitally for the first time on Xbox Video.

Skype Translator adds two more languages, Mandarin and Italian, joining Spanish and English in the preview program. Adding Mandarin Chinese is quite a feat; it’s a “very challenging language to learn, even for Skype Translator,” noted Yasmin Khan in a Skype blog post. “With approximately 10,000 characters and multiple tones, this is one of the most difficult languages for a native English speaker to master, along with Arabic, Japanese and Korean.” Microsoft researchers and scientists in Beijing, China, worked very closely with their U.S.-based colleagues to build the recognition, language and translation models for Mandarin.

Build is doing a road trip! Build 2015, the developers’ conference April 29-May 1 in San Francisco, is sold out, but if you want to see some of Microsoft’s latest technologies and hear Build speakers in person, you’re in luck: Build is going on the road. The Build Tour, from May 18 through June 15, will come to 10 cities around the world: London, New York, Atlanta, Austin, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Mexico City, Singapore, Auckland and Sydney.

Our app of the week is the new Shazam, which makes exploring, buying and sharing music even easier for Windows Phone users. You can now preview favorite Shazams with Xbox Music Playbox and add your favorite songs from Shazam’s Charts to the My Shazam section. Meanwhile, if you’re just starting your taxes (*looks at self*), get some help from Mint, MSN Money and other apps, including TaxCaster, which lets you quickly calculate your estimated tax refund. If, after your tax prep, you’re not in the mood to cook for real, you can still have some fun with the game, “Toca Kitchen 2,” with some crazy new food combinations to try out. Or just let it go, and play the updated “Frozen Free Fall,” with 45 new birthday levels, three new game modes and dazzling dresses.